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No Email Apps work except Outlook (also only old FF works)

Karl Schurmann

Posted 05 October 2011 - 01:10 AM

I bought a new laptop about three weeks back. Very highly speced: Core i3, 8GB RAM, 1GB GFX.

It came with Windows 7 64bit Pro.

The first thing I noticed is that the latest Firefox didn't work. When I tried to type an address in the address bar it froze on the second keystroke.

So now I am running Firefox 3.6

But that's not the main issue... the main issue is email...

MS Outlook 2010 is running fine... no problems, but other email apps won't work for long.

First I loaded Evolution for Windows. Ported all my emails from my Linux PC to my new Windows PC. It ran fine, for about three hours... then it kept crashing... so I switched to Windows Live Mail, which worked perfectly for about two and a half weeks. The only thing that changed prior to WLM not working, was I flew in from Hong Kong after a one week work visit to Shenzhen China, where WLM worked fine.

I loaded up WLM at the airport and it froze... had to CTRL+ALT+DEL to shut it down and after that everything was ghosted. Backed up the email folder and re imported it... still everything was greyed out. can't click on anything...

So I switched to good old Thunderbird... which worked fine for about 6 hours... now I periodically freezes while browsing emails... and if I try and create a new email or reply/forward an existing one... I can't type anything... and it freezes up completely...

I am tearing my hair out... I don't know what else to do... Googling the problem is not finding any help...

I am running NOD32 (was AVAST, but an IT Technician told me that Avast was causing the problem with WLM, so I switched... with no result.)
Also running Spybot as I was told that not having that will cause email to not work...

I have seen three IT Technicians at a great cost to myself and I haven't moved forward at all.

I am desperate to get my problem fixed as I cannot reply to any emails and have urgent matters to address.

Can't use Outlook as Outlook is for work email and work doesn't like us having personal email in outlook... so need it to be seperate.

Karl Schurmann

Posted 05 October 2011 - 03:33 AM

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after more fiddling I have found that it would seem that the graphics are not updating... it is starting to happen on other apps as well... including the dell system diagnosis app... you can click on things... it happens but not visibly...